Some things I never got around to mentioning lately...
The Distant Librarian notes that Dartmouth is now beta testing a new federated search service called Summon. You can test it yourself on the Dartmouth Libraries page! I gave it a shot, looking for 'edible wild mushrooms,' and retrieved thousands of results including--on the first page--a book, a lot of journal articles and some newspaper articles.
I really don't have any smart review notes, though...the whole reason I meant to post about this was to make some sort of goofy joke about how much I wanted to use something called Summon because it would make me feel like a wizard casting a Summon Information spell ('cause you know, usually you Summon Monster, right?)...yeah, it needs work.
Dangerous Intersection has an interesting piece about how impartial focus groups could be useful to help settle all kinds of questions. Sadly, it would probably be pretty expensive to make this kind of service widely available.
And there was a really interesting Blowfish Blog piece called "Special Rights, Not Equal Rights" (linked from Greta Christina's Blog) about how weird it is to be in a same-sex marriage in California right now. Since it's no longer legal to get married, but if you already were married before Proposition 8 passed, you still are, there are a lot of people who do have 'special rights' denied to others.
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